Zarivna Teodozia
Born in the village of Rydoduby in the Ternopil region.
Graduated from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Philology faculty, 1973) and Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University (Theatre Studies faculty, 1979). Worked at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv and at the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine. Editor-in-chief of the Kyiv magazine.
Author of several books of poetry, among them Acting On a Circle (1991), Provincial Thoughts (2009), Out of Ashes and Metal (2011). She has also published a number of novels, including The Hunt For the Sky Birds (2014), which won the Yaroslaviv Val Literary Prize (2015) in Ukraine, theatrical plays and documentary movie scripts.
Teodozia is the laureate of a number of literary prizes. She translates from Polish and English. Teodozia has taken part in several international literary festivals: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (2008), Sofia, Bulgaria (2013), Chisinau, Moldova (2014), Poznan, Poland (2016), Brno, Olomouc, Prague, Czech Republic (2016), Vilnius, Lithuania (2017). Her literary works have been translated into English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Macedonian, and Bengali languages.
Bibliography
Poetry:
- Acting on a Circle (1991, Ukraine)
- A Watcher For an Abandoned Paradise (1997, Ukraine)
- The Motherland in the Coat of Arms (2004, Ukraine)
- Provincial Thoughts (2009, Ukraine)
- Out of Ashes and Metal (2011, Ukraine)
- Poesias (2016, Brazil)
- A Land of Seven Winds (2020, Ukraine)
- A Land of Seven Winds (2020, Poland)
Novels:
- Stones Growing Among Us (1999)
- A Straw Paradise (2001)
- A Willow Board (2008)
- The Hunt For the Sky Birds (2014)
- Silence of Cesium (2022)
Short Stories and Novellas:
- Ascent to Kaiserwald (2017)
Documentary Movie Scripts:
- Cathedral
- Olzhych's Return
- Two Lives of Iryna Vilde
- The Road of Viacheslav Chornovil
- The Cossacks' Generations Live On... Oleksandr Ilchenko
- Orpheus From Marianivka
- Marko Vovchok, the Fatal Woman
Translations:
- Arthur Miller, "All My Sons" (premiered in 2017 at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv)
- Brian Friel, "Translations" (premiered in 2022 at the Lesia Ukrainka Academic Drama Theater)
- Brian Friel, "Dancing at Lughnasa" (premiered in 2019 at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv)
- Donald Churchill, "The decorator" (Theater Na Podoli in Kyiv)
- Dusan Kovacevich, "Radovan III" (premiered in 2021 at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv)
- Wieslaw Mysliwski, "Requiem for the Mistress", mag. "Vsesvit" №1-2, 2014
Books of poetry:
- Jidi Madja, "Fire and words", 2020
- Kalina-Izabela Ziola, A cold touch of the wind, 2021
Distinctions
- The Vasyl Symonenko Literary Award for the book of poetry Acting on a Circle (1992)
- A Watcher For an Abandoned Paradise – the best poetic book of the year 1997 by the magazine Word and Time rating
- The Magazine Berezil First Prize for the novel Stones Growing Among Us (1999)
- The Magazine Berezil Second Prize for the novel A Straw Paradise (2001)
- The Magazine Courier of Kryvbas Prize for the novella A Girl Out of a Sweet Cherry (2003)
- The Borys Necherda Literary Prize for the book of poetry The Motherland in the Coat of Arms (2004)
- The Magazine Berezil First Prize for the novel The Hunt For the Sky Birds (2004)
- The Magazine Berezil Third Prize for the novella A Lake in the Fog (2006)
- The Magazine Courier of Kryvbas Prize for the circle of poems Provincial Thoughts (2006)
- The Volodymyr Svidzynskyi Literary Prize for the book of poetry Provincial Thoughts (2010)
- The Dmytro Nytchenko Prize for popularisation of Ukrainian literature on television and in mass media (2014)
- The Yaroslaviv Val Literary Prize for the novel The Hunt For the Sky Birds (2015)
- The Panteleimon Kulish Literary Prize for the novel The Hunt For the Sky Birds (2018)